# Diabetes Nurse Specialist

**Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Leatherhead
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £51657.00 to £58785.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our friendly Diabetes team within Surrey Downs Health and Care. As a team member, you will be working closely with the diabetes specialist nurses (DSNs), and diabetes dietitians, and our diabetes consultants, who provide care and support for our community diabetes service.

The post holder will ensure that high-quality nursing care is delivered within their designated clinical area. The post holder will assist in setting the standards of clinical practice, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, and will monitor patient outcomes.

**Main duties of the job**

- Clinical Practice: Establish standards of nursing assessment and care and ensure these are delivered at all times by regularly monitoring and evaluating patient outcomes.

- Advanced Clinical skills: Hold relevant post registration course. Undertake diabetes specialist nursing duties without direct supervision, but liaising with the Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse and Consultants should the need arise.

- Professional leadership and management: Responsible for the management, supervision and support of all members of the diabetes nursing team, always acting as a professional role model.

- Education research training and development: Maintain own statutory and mandatory training requirements, and monitor those of their team.

- Evaluation of care and research: Ensure that all areas of practice adhere to all current NMC guidance.

- Human Resource: Be responsible for the deployment of HR policies within your sphere of responsibility including the proactive management of sickness and unauthorised absence.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £51,657 to £58,785 a year Pro Rata Per-Annum inc Fringe HCAS

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 7

**About us**

Surrey Downs Health and Care delivers care closer to people's communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services, and our innovative partnership with local NHS organizations.

## Skills

### Required
- diabetes specialist nursing
- clinical practice
- advanced clinical skills
- professional leadership and management
- education research training and development
- evaluation of care and research
- human resource

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